Gates Foundation (education) grants since 1998
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Abl (Amount: $2,200,000)
Description: Funding for its master scheduling software tool. This grant is not listed on the Gates Foundation website as of 8/2/2018
Achieve, Inc. (Amount: $1,200,000)
Description: To support states development and implementation of coherent systems of assessments and accountability including college ready graduation policies and practices
Achieve, Inc. (Amount: $999,548)
Description: To increase availability of high-quality middle-school science instructional materials and support districts in their procurement and usage of new instructional materials
AchieveMpls (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Advance Illinois NFP (Amount: $200,000)
Description: To provide for General Operating Support
Alliance for Excellent Education (Amount: $25,000)
Description: To support a convening that will result in a consensus statement and action plan for the formation of a Global Science of Learning Initiative. This will include plans for foundational infrastructure, funding, and a mobilization of plans for implementation and acceleration of the current science and future groundbreaking science of learning
American Council on Education (Amount: $20,000)
Description: To advance higher education leadership conversations about eliminating attainment gaps
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University (Amount: $36,800)
Description: To develop and solicit feedback on potential convening and public narrative-shaping efforts of diverse higher education thought-leaders
Association of Community College Trustees (Amount: $15,000)
Description: To support their annual Leadership Congress which provides a national platform to bolster community colleges by bringing trustees, presidents and other thought and policy leaders together to share experiences and expertise
Atlanta Public Schools (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To enact the conditions & develop capabilities needed to adopt a 'to and through' approach to advising for high school students
Austin Community College (Amount: $20,000)
Description: To provide an honorarium as part of an ROI analysis for better decision making to scale solution efforts in a shared services model, especially those that are most beneficial to outcomes for low-income and minority students
Axiom Learning, LLC (Amount: $1,084,674)
Description: To identify the critical modalities for the scalable implementation of LEAP 3.0 in service of special needs students in school settings, particularly high proportions of Black, Latino, and low-income students with disabilities
Bay Path University (Amount: $60,500)
Description: To support a conference for a network of institutions interested in shared programming for adult women learners
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc (Amount: $399,779)
Description: To develop and disseminate policy proposals in support of improved higher education affordability and accountability
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Amount: $1,474,152)
Description: To fund OCCRL's contributions to the Pathways work that endeavors to reach a future state where equitable outcomes can be achieved in postsecondary education
Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (Amount: $3,809,826)
Description: To improve the teacher preparation programs at four minority serving institutions
CORE Districts (Amount: $16,003,983)
Description: This investment will support CORE Districts to launch a 5-year Network for School Improvement (NSI) in partnership with the eight districts that make up CORE. In our strategy materials, CORE was featured as an intermediary whose work most closely aligned with our vision of NSIs and as a result, CORE was identified as an initial ("pilot") partner for our School Improvement Delivery model body of work
California State University Foundation (Amount: $250,000)
Description: To support the California State University Chancellor's Office in implementing the CSU Graduation Initiative 2025
Camden City School District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Amount: $3,000,000)
Description: To provide general operating support
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Amount: $50,000)
Description: To support the Carnegie Foundation 2019 Annual Summit on Improvement in Education. The Summit will be held on April 16-18, 2019. This three-day event brings together a diverse and vibrant community of educators, researchers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and policymakers dedicated to accelerating improvement in education
Center for American Progress (Amount: $100,000)
Description: To support CAP to conduct a series of analyses to uncover more regarding the teacher recruitment and retention problem, and especially among teachers of color
Center for American Progress (Amount: $1,500,000)
Description: To support the production of research and conducting of education-related advocacy to push America's higher education system to produce more equitable outcomes
Center for Community Change (Amount: $300,000)
Description: To elevate replicable strategies and engage national grassroots and grasstops organizations in a process of inquiry at the intersection of racial equity and Early childhood education
Chalkbeat, Inc. (Amount: $850,005)
Description: To expand coverage of education issues in target states and nationally, engaging parents and influencers in discussion of current education issues
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Fund (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To enact the conditions & develop capabilities needed to adopt a 'to and through' approach to advising for high school students
Children Now (Amount: $750,000)
Description: For general operating support
City Year (Amount: $400,000)
Description: To conduct a research analysis project to better understand the associations and interactions between different social-emotional skills and academic outcomes
Columbia University (Amount: $1,911,540)
Description: To support evaluation
Columbus City School District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Complete College America Inc. (Amount: $500,000)
Description: To promote greater efficiencies within Complete College America processes by consolidating previous data collection efforts to leverage Complete College America Alliance members' existing relationships with National Student Clearinghouse
Complete Tennessee (Amount: $599,150)
Description: To support Complete Tennessee's contribution to postsecondary attainment in Tennessee through work in data capacity building and stakeholder engagement
Conexion Americas (Amount: $1,300,096)
Description: To support the growth and activities of an equity coalition in Tennessee
Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $175,000)
Description: To provide for general operating support
Deans for Impact (Amount: $350,029)
Description: To support the development of a policy agenda for Deans of teacher prep programs who advocate for high quality teacher preparation marked by adequate clinical practice, effective teacher educators, authentic partnerships with schools, and continuous improvement
DigiLearn Digital Learning Institute (Amount: $12,000)
Description: To support DigiLearn's Teacher Prep Convening
Digital Promise Global (Amount: $206,075)
Description: To develop an advisory board of researchers, educators, and solution developers to inform the on promising R&D areas in middle years mathematics
Diverse Charter Schools Coalition (Amount: $528,268)
Description: To support data and policy-advocacy capacity building within a national network of charter schools serving Black, Latino and low-income students
DonorsChoose.org (Amount: $1,000,000)
Description: To help students and teachers by funding classroom requests that benefit schools across the country while activating citizen philanthropists in the support of public education
EdReports.org, Inc. (Amount: $7,000,000)
Description: To provide general support
EdSource Inc. (Amount: $1,500,000)
Description: For general operating support
Edsurge (Amount: $750,000)
Description: To examine higher-ed practitioners' understanding of the challenges and opportunities created by digital learning services and courseware. This grant is not listed on the Gates Foundation website as of 8/2/2018
Education Commission of the States (Amount: $350,000)
Description: For general operating support
Education Commission of the States (Amount: $4,950,001)
Description: To support state policy makers in challenging areas of finance, workforce/education and governance/leadership issues
Education Leaders of Color Inc. (Amount: $600,000)
Description: To expand and elevate the voices and perspectives of education leaders of color in the national charter school debate
Education Resource Strategies Inc (Amount: $600,000)
Description: To create a fact base to inform what effective resource looks like in the field
Education Resource Strategies, Inc. (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support the Orleans Parish School Board's strategy for supporting students with special needs
Education Service Center Region XIII (Amount: $40,000)
Description: To support dissemination of best practices in Texas' Rural Education conference
Education Strategy Group, LLC (Amount: $1,199,982)
Description: To engage state K12 and higher education leaders to implement policies and practices designed to close postsecondary readiness and attainment gaps
Education Trust Inc (Amount: $500,000)
Description: To provide for general operating support
Education Trust Inc (Amount: $125,000)
Description: To explore postsecondary policy priorities in New York State
Education Trust Inc (Amount: $500,000)
Description: To further progress on equity-focused postsecondary policy and advocacy
Education Trust Inc (Amount: $2,333,333)
Description: For general operating support of the Education Trust-West
Education Trust Inc (Amount: $1,000,000)
Description: To continue equity focused research, and data and policy analysis work, supporting key state level policy and advocacy partners
Educational Service District 105 (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Educators for Excellence (Amount: $4,000,001)
Description: To grow E4E's membership and its leadership cohort while testing strategies for moving new advocates up the ladder of engagement
Equity in Education Coalition (Amount: $401,300)
Description: To support capacity building for the Equity in Education Coalition
Excelencia in Education (Amount: $1,500,000)
Description: To support Excelencia in Education's development and refinement of the Seal and the deployment of tactical guidance and supports for institutions to attain the Seal and increase Latino student success
Fund for the City of New York, Inc. (Amount: $2,500,115)
Description: To support the OpenSciEd Project and develop a middle school science curriculum designed for the Next Generation Science Standards
Grand Prairie Independent School District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Granville County Public Schools (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Growth Philanthropy Network Inc. (Amount: $20,000)
Description: To support The Exchange 2019 Conference
Harvard University (Amount: $64,900)
Description: To improve Educator Preparation Programs in the state of Texas through the development, analysis, and presentation of educator data
Harvard University (Amount: $157,000)
Description: To support website user-testing and updates to a set of interactive online tools for navigating 'non-academic' frameworks and skills as part of the ongoing work of the Taxonomy Project, which is designed to increase transparency, precision, and clarity in the field of social and emotional learning and related domains
Harvard University (Amount: $263,202)
Description: To enhance understanding among the American public about education policies needed to drive improvement in student outcomes
Hispanic Federation, Inc. (Amount: $300,000)
Description: To increase the impact of Latino student advocacy in New York
Illustrative Mathematics (Amount: $2,849,792)
Description: To support student learning and teacher development
Inside Higher Ed, Inc (Amount: $210,910)
Description: To increase awareness of digital learning and other innovation-related issues among higher education leaders and influencers
Jacksonville Public Education Fund Inc. (Amount: $1,217,448)
Description: To support the growth and activities of a K12 advocacy hub in Florida, focused on ensuring excellent teaching and learning opportunities for Black, Latino and low-income students
Jefferson County Board of Education (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Jefferson Education Exchange (Amount: $99,990)
Description: To fund a series of convenings that will hone in on what educators want from R&D and the appetite for educators to be more involved in informing/driving the national education research agenda, helping to inform the future R&D work of IES and the Gates Foundation
KIPP Foundation (Amount: $740,748)
Description: To support the sharing of postsecondary advising practices for high school students
King County - Public Health - Seattle & King County (Amount: $1,071,191)
Description: To evaluate King County investments in school-community partnerships addressing root causes and mitigating impacts of student trauma and adversity
LOCUS Impact Investing (Amount: $50,000)
Description: To enhance the effectiveness of the Texas Rural Funders Collaborative
La Joya Independent School District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Leadership Conference Education Fund, Inc. (Amount: $2,799,038)
Description: To support policies which drive towards educational equity, while growing the policy and advocacy capacity of state, local, and national civil rights groups
Leadership Florida Statewide Community Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $350,023)
Description: To plan, develop and execute education-centered learning opportunities for Florida's current and emerging education stakeholders
Learn to Earn Dayton (Amount: $106,934)
Description: To provide OH Mayors information on the importance of and potential solutions for, increasing post-secondary credential attainment
Lipscomb University (Amount: $100,000)
Description: To provide for General Operating Support
MDRC (Amount: $849,325)
Description: To continue MDRC's evaluation of the NYC Small School of choice investment
MomsRising Education Fund (Amount: $300,000)
Description: To continue the work of MomsRising Education Fund in reaching influencers and the engaged public to support high quality early learning in Washington state
National Alliance For Public Charter Schools (Amount: $300,000)
Description: To support national charter policy-advocacy on growth, quality and special education integration
National Association of State Boards of Education (Amount: $200,000)
Description: To provide for General Operating Support
National Center for Learning Disabilities (Amount: $307,000)
Description: To provide for general operating support
National Center for Learning Disabilities (Amount: $700,000)
Description: To help build an evidence base for supporting students with disabilities, which will contribute to the development of NCLD's tools for young adults and teachers and to analyze the current resources that are supporting young adults in their transitions from high school
National Charter Collaborative (Amount: $56,520)
Description: To support travel scholarships for charter leaders of color to attend the Collective Action Convening
National Charter Collaborative (Amount: $599,422)
Description: To support the building of a national policy-advocacy platform led by single site charter leaders of color
National College Access Network Inc (Amount: $1,199,979)
Description: To support college advising readiness
National Congress of Parents and Teachers (Amount: $997,988)
Description: To support PTA in helping empower parents to be advocates for their own children and for better education outcomes in their districts and states
National Council on Teacher Quality (Amount: $308,447)
Description: To support a state level teacher policy database and a review of teacher preparation program approval processes
National Skills Coalition (Amount: $2,000,000)
Description: To broaden the popular base of support for changes in higher education through federal advocacy and business leader mobilization efforts
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (Amount: $5,000,000)
Description: To enhance NSC's collection and reporting services to offer a comprehensive data collective for postsecondary education initiatives and institutions to enable their transparency and improvement efforts
New America (Amount: $1,097,782)
Description: To increase the amount of publicly available opinion data on higher education issues and raise the voice of underrepresented groups -- such as low-income and minority students -- who are rarely accounted for in policymaking discussions
New America (Amount: $400,000)
Description: To support advocacy for high-quality teacher prep programs and the development of a Latina/o teacher
New America Foundation (Amount: $50,000)
Description: To disseminate the Indispensable Policies and Practices for High-Quality Teacher & Learning in Pre-K research
New Schools Fund (Amount: $1,059,820)
Description: To enable the first phase of planning potential advanced research and development programs, including analyzing and publishing a public synthesis of learnings from the Advanced Education Research and Development Programs RFI
New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund (Amount: $300,000)
Description: To provide general operating support to New Schools Fund
New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund (Amount: $353,320)
Description: To support entrepreneurs developing innovations that will shift the labor market trajectories of Black, Latino, and low-income students through technology-enabled learning experiences, instructional content, learning diagnostics, and supportive administrative tools
New Venture Fund (Amount: $212,000)
Description: To strengthen the ability of NNSTOY to be a more effective and sustainable organization and thus enable it to continue its work to increase teacher leadership through structured training and provide support to teachers of high needs students
New Venture Fund (Amount: $900,000)
Description: To support English Learners Success Forum
New Venture Fund (Amount: $1,500,000)
Description: To support the work of Learning Heroes to inform and equip parents to be effective advocates for their children's educational success
New York City Charter School Center (Amount: $50,000)
Description: To provide for General Operating Support
New York City Outward Bound Center Inc (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
New York Urban League (Amount: $100,000)
Description: To grow education advocacy in New York
North Carolina Community College System (Amount: $199,525)
Description: To support communications and engagement supports for the NC Community College System RISE initiative
North Carolina State University (Amount: $249,932)
Description: To support ongoing research and dissemination of efforts to improve academic achievement for all students in North Carolina
North Carolina State University (Amount: $12,000)
Description: To support communications and convening efforts for education stakeholders in North Carolina
Ohio Association of Community Colleges (Amount: $1,196,610)
Description: To raise awareness of and support implementation of best practices to assist more students to complete post-secondary credentials of choice
Ontario-Montclair Schools Foundation (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
OpenUp Resources (Amount: $917,000)
Description: To support capacity building
PAVE Inc. (Amount: $250,000)
Description: For general operating purposes
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Partnership for College Completion (Amount: $597,379)
Description: To provide support to advance state and institutional policy changes necessary to close the post-secondary completion gap
Partnership for Learning (Amount: $984,000)
Description: To provide for General Operating Support
Philanthropy Ohio (Amount: $173,650)
Description: To inform policymakers, education, business and community leaders about the importance of and potential solutions for closing Ohio's post-secondary attainment gap
Pivot Learning Partners (Amount: $1,225,008)
Description: To support instructional materials
PowerMyLearning, Inc. (Amount: $500,000)
Description: To explore connections between tier one and supplemental instructional resources to accelerate student learning
Providence Public School District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Puget Sound Educational Service District (Amount: $100,000)
Description: To support the learning community for our Road Map Superintendents
Puget Sound Educational Service District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
RAND Corporation (Amount: $349,000)
Description: To support curriculum
Renton School District #403 (Amount: $109,499)
Description: To support a planning grant to prepare for the four-year investment in the five Renton Innovation Zone (RIZ) schools
Renton School District #403 (Amount: $762,496)
Description: To support schools in the Renton Innovation Zone to support Local Improvement Networks
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. (Amount: $50,000)
Description: To support strategic alliances for academic excellence in New York State
Sacramento City Unified School District (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Society for Research in Child Development (Amount: $800,000)
Description: To support a second year of implementation of the Society for Research in Child Development early childhood education fellows program
Solutions Journalism Network Inc (Amount: $1,100,000)
Description: To support the extension of Education Lab, a collaboration of The Seattle Times and the Solutions Journalism Network that produces highly engaging, solutions-oriented news and conversation about public education in Seattle and Washington state
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC) (Amount: $200,935)
Description: To support a study to address challenges faced by schools and community partners in accessing, analyzing, and using disaggregated student data
Southern Regional Education Board (Amount: $350,316)
Description: To support engagement and communications activities related to human capital development
Southern Regional Education Board (Amount: $59,000)
Description: For general operating purposes
Springfield Public Schools (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Stand for Children Leadership Center (Amount: $300,000)
Description: To advocate for priorities across the P-16 spectrum
State Education Technology (Amount: $299,752)
Description: To support state education leaders in their selection of evidenced based professional development and quality instructional materials
Student Veterans of America (Amount: $482,902)
Description: To engage student veterans around postsecondary data and policy reform
Summit Education Initiative (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
TNAchieves (Amount: $212,750)
Description: To enhance the public data systems within the state of Tennessee
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy & Research (Amount: $249,645)
Description: To support advocacy, policy and coalition leadership for quality Pre-K in Tennessee
Tennessee Association of Business Foundation (Amount: $220,000)
Description: To provide for General Operating Support
Tennessee Higher Education Commission (Amount: $240,000)
Description: To support research and data collection on the impact of higher education reforms in Tennessee
Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (Amount: $2,910,000)
Description: To provide for general operating support
Texas Charter Schools Association (Amount: $50,000)
Description: For general operating purposes
Texas Community College Education Initiative (Amount: $300,000)
Description: For general operating purposes
Texas Education Agency (Amount: $200,000)
Description: To establish a demonstration of the impact of data sharing between State Education Agencies and Educator Preparation Programs, informing conversations state- and nation-wide on Educator Prep Program quality and practice
Texas Tech University (Amount: $14,950)
Description: To support the costs of participation in the Promise54 DEI Accelerator for US PREP
Texas Tribune, Inc. (Amount: $751,413)
Description: To increase public awareness and engagement of education reform issues in Texas and support other states in similar efforts
The Aspen Institute Inc (Amount: $400,000)
Description: To support decision makers and advocates in working together to create policy solutions that improve student outcomes in K12 and education beyond high school
The California Education Partners (Amount: $12,000,000)
Description: This investment will support the California Education Partners to launch and run a 5-year Network for School Improvement in partnership with California districts and schools. In our strategy materials, Cal Ed Partners was identified as an initial ("pilot") partner for our School Improvement Delivery model body of work, based on Cal Ed's promising network model and reach in California (a targeted geography
The Expectations Project, Inc. (Amount: $537,400)
Description: To provide for general operating support
The Fellowship-BMEC, Inc. (Amount: $350,000)
Description: To advocate for and implement programming to help build a diverse, highly-effective teacher corps
The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (Amount: $600,000)
Description: To analyze free and debt-free college policy proposals and disseminate findings to the public
The Institute for College Access and Success (Amount: $550,000)
Description: To support continued federal postsecondary policy efforts and organizational strategic planning
The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (Amount: $1,157,747)
Description: To elevate policy-advocacy for students with disabilities in charter schools
The Washington Monthly (Amount: $474,338)
Description: To promote alternative rankings of colleges and universities and assess the state of innovation in higher education
Turnaround for Children, Inc. (Amount: $1,000,000)
Description: To increase the availability of evidence-based integrated solutions in the market so that educators can create supportive learning environments and trusting relationships in high-needs schools
UPD Consulting (Amount: $39,992)
Description: To cope a technical solution that enables the Texas Education Agency to automate the collection, integration, and reporting of pre-service data from Educator Prep Programs with corresponding data on the in-service experiences of program graduates for the purpose of continuous improvement of educator preparation
UPD Consulting (Amount: $62,939)
Description: To scope a technical solution that enables the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to automate the collection, integration, and reporting of pre-service data from Educator Prep Programs with corresponding data on the in-service experiences of program graduates for the purpose of continuous improvement of educator preparation
United Way of New York City (Amount: $100,000)
Description: To further education advocacy in New York City
University of California, Irvine (Amount: $49,500)
Description: To produce an academic report detailing the general theoretical frameworks of occupational identity and development that will focus specifically on underrepresented youth and a set of potential intervention and solutions areas that are suggested by research and practice efforts
University of Chicago (Amount: $52,815)
Description: TBD
University of North Carolina (Amount: $25,000)
Description: For ongoing planning efforts with the My Future NC Commission
University of Pennsylvania (Amount: $154,974)
Description: To develop a conceptual framework for Distributed Leadership and identify tools, resources and technical assistance partners
Uplift Education (Amount: $90,000)
Description: To support college advising
Urban Institute (Amount: $800,000)
Description: To research and analyze federal higher education policy related to financial aid and accountability
Valor Collegiate Academies (Amount: $500,000)
Description: To support Compass program
Vanderbilt University (Amount: $349,046)
Description: To support the principal leadership strand of work and develop additional communications capacity.
Washington Charter School Development, Inc (Amount: $9,800,000)
Description: To fund the construction of Green Dot's south Seattle high school--Rainier Valley Leadership Academy
Watermark Insights, LLC (Amount: $225,264)
Description: To allow teacher preparation programs to integrate their candidate assessment data with other data elements so that it can be analyzed and used to inform support for individuals as well as larger program improvement efforts
Yes We Must Coalition (Amount: $50,000)
Description: To support the 2018 Yes We Must Coalition National Conference